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Star Wars: A Franchise Story
VANÍČKOVÁ, Simona
This master's thesis focuses on the phenomenon of Star Wars and analyses what makes it such a popular and long-standing popcultural hegemon. The thesis explores the inception of the franchise's first film in detail; it describes the state of the Hollywood film industry in that era and how the film was introduced and sold to the public; the technical innovations of the films' creative teams are brought under spotlight. The films are here understood as pioneers of the blockbuster, a specific kind of box office hit whose key features are its entertainment value, its spectacular sensory nature and close cooperation with businesses that are given licenses to manufacture merchandise, which not only helps market the film, but garners financial gain as well. The paratexts that come into existence this way are also viewed as meaningful objects for their consumers; together with the new VCR and DVD technology, the paratexts help not only to keep the franchise alive in the minds of older fans, but also to create new fans during the long interims between the separate film trilogies. The franchise's transition into a Disney asset is analysed next, including the new films produced under its supervision, as well as the franchise's shift into the new world of streamed content.
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William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope; translation and stylistic analysis of Ian Doescher's play
Kabešová, Karolína ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Chalupský, Petr (referee)
This bachelor thesis consists of three parts - the introduction, the translation of the first act of William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope and stylistic analysis of the translation. The first part focuses on the introduction of the three works related to the topic of this thesis - William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, and Ian Doescher's book. The practical part consists of the original text and its back-to-back Czech translation. The third part is an analysis of the translation, namely those passages that are challenging in terms of linguistic finesse and idiosyncratic style.
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Narative struktur
Lišková, Tereza ; Kraus, Jiří (advisor) ; Švelch, Jaroslav (referee)
The topic of diploma thesis was to analyze the narrative structure and transmedia storytelling of Star Wars processed into a film by director George Lucas. The work is mainly focused on narrative analysis of both the original and more recent films and further analysis of transmedia narrative that makes Star Wars extend mainly into the field of literature and computer games. In addition to narrative analysis subject of the work was also the analysis of the fictional world where the story takes place. Another point of diploma thesis is to analyze transmedia narrative that makes the original Star Wars story transform into a books, computer games and more. The whole concept of Star Wars can be described as a modern narrative, moreover, whose stories are from the genre of science-fiction and take place in a completely fictional environment. During the analysis of narrative structures, author primarily used the classical theoretical literature about the narrative theory. For example the Morphology fairy tales from Vladimir J. Propp, according to which it is possible to extent the analyse of the original and other episodes of Star Wars. For analysis of transmedia storyteling was also used studies of Mary Laure Ryan, who discusses the possibility of altering the basic narrative in transmedia narrative. The aim of...
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Mythological and Mythogenic Aspects of Star Wars and the Specificities of its Stories in Regard to Serialized Storytelling
Pavlíček, Milan ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
Mythological and Mythogenic Aspects of Star Wars and the Specificities of its Stories in Regard to Serialized Storytelling covers the six stories of the Star Wars series in relation to Emil Volek's story model whose terminology and story typology is used to describe how the stories influence one another, which is to say, how the stories influence the reception of the other stories in the series and how the reception has changed over time. The diploma thesis also examines how myth is being applied to Star Wars and reflects whether such connection is justified. Both Star Wars and myth are given a definition and the relationship between the series and Joseph Campbell's monomyth, a concept frequently connected to Star Wars, is explored. The final part of the text describes narrative elements and processes participating in the creation of the original trilogy. An appendix covers various issues in regard to the translation of the series into Czech and briefly evaluates existing translations.
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